Paris and the porn industry have squabbled for years over how to verify viewers’ ages.

Paris and the porn industry have squabbled for years over how to verify viewers’ ages.

  • @totallynotarobotEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Oh for sure. It’s a very complicated problem and a lot of people are invested in allowing the abuse to continue (otherwise ph would have been prosecuted and shut down).

    I don’t agree that age gating is simple. Not only can people lie, but handling different jurisdictions is complicated af.

    My reaction was more to the specific complaint than the mechanism. I definitely appreciate how hard any of this is to implement with stuff on the internet.

      • @totallynotarobotEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Oh that’s cool. Not European, but will investigate because I like cool things. How secure is it, and how reliable/fake-proof?

        • ankokudaishogunEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          A lot secure and fake proof.

          It was made for accessing government services, after all. I think it’s still kinda slow and cumbersome though.

          • @totallynotarobotEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Where I am from, “made for accessing government services” would suggest insecure and unreliable lol. Glad that’s not the case here, that sounds like a good part of the solution.